Sidney Franklin
Acting
Biography
Sidney Franklin (not to be confused with the director-producer-writer, and occasional actor, Sidney Franklin born 1893, died 1972) was an American stage and screen character actor, in films from 1919 to 1930.
Born: May 20, 1870
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
The Red Lily
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Puttin' on the Ritz
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Playing with Fire
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
The Sleeping Lion
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
The Texas Trail
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their property by the ubiquitous evil landlord.
The Block Signal
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner. Though Ryan's failing eyesight is named as the cause of the crash, he's undeterred as he designs an automatic braking invention.
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
A Boy of Flanders
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
Filmography
as Schmidt
as Mr. Meyerbogen
as (uncredited)
as Abraham Kaminsky
as 'Roadhouse' Rosen
as Foster
as Ike Collander
as Film Buyer
as Madame Charpied's Husband
as Herr Brinker
as Papa Levitzky
as Nadar Gungi
as Priest
as Pat Isaacs
as Bonacieux
as Her Father